Opinion: Are school boards part of the problem or the solution?

By staff and wire services reports

August 11th, 2011

In the drama of public education, many people seem to see school boards as wearing black hats, says Anne M. Byrne, a member of the Nanuet, N.Y. school board and a member of the board of directors of the National School Boards Association, for the Washington Post. When is the last time you heard a positive reference to school boards in our ongoing national debate? School boards are part of the problem, right? Actually, local school boards have an essential role in education reform…